- Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God.
- For this reason you also pay taxes, for they are servants of God’s service, continually doing this very thing.
- Therefore give everyone what you owe: if you owe taxes, pay taxes; if customs, then customs; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.
- Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
- For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,” and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
- Love doesn’t harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.
- But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.
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